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A CGI movie with talking dogs? Yep, count me in! However, this is not your ordinary children's fare. It is for adults. It shows cruelty and suffering and sadness and while the story ain't real, it reflects what some actual dogs - sorry, Hotanas - are forced to endure. The movie gets you in the feels. The animation wasn't the best - more like watching an 80-minute video game cut scene. But the movie was great! There's a variety of dogs to see. Odds are you'll find a favorite; mine was without a doubt the scruffy one. You don't have to be on some crusade to stop dog fighting to watch this. Maybe you're just a furry! Want to see a great show with talking dogs? The price of admission is watching some of the suffering they endure.

After hearing the premise of this movie, I was determined to take a look. Another tale like "One Stormy Night" perhaps? Exploring a friendship between predator and prey? Sign me up! However, this movie proved rather difficult to find and only recently has been made available on YouTube. Although not as good as OSN (a masterpiece) this was still a great movie for both children and adults. This adult plans to watch it again soon.

You'd think stop motion animation limits what you can do, and may even restrict the movie to little kids, but no. The animation looks experienced, and it doesn't matter if it's cell drawn or CGI or this, the story plays the same. Holding that against this movie is doing it a terrible disservice. So let's nip that now.

We have a story of predator and prey, fox and mouse, who both die and find themselves in heaven. They each blame each other as to why they're there, and even in heaven not all is forgiven. These two can't wait to be rid of each other. That's what makes this tale kind of cool. Like, how can they become friends? What are the rules in heaven? Questions are raised which keep you watching, wondering how things might affect what happens next.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, but perhaps I expected to, and found both both main characters endearing. The little female mouse probably had bigger nuts than the male fox! And when the movie goes for your heart, it gets it. When it was all over, there was no more tale to tell, but I wanted more. It left me feeling happy and hopeful.

The trailer for this movie spoils more of it than this review will, so if you haven't seen the trailer yet, don't. This is a low budget sci-fi tale of one guy in his escape pod, trying to figure out how he got there and what to do next. His lone companion is the pod's somewhat useless and sarcastic AI computer. Within minutes I realized there wasn't much of a budget, but I gave it a chance and soon I found myself invested in this fellow and his dilemma. Although the scenery doesn't change much, and the obvious use of CGI takes you out of the moment, the story was still interesting in itself. It was a good balance - the movie's shorter run time means my curiosity was satisfied sooner. Once they drug out the green screen though, things got kind of cheesy, but I was cheering for this fellow nonetheless. It was a good time.